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The ABC is proud to celebrate our role as one of the biggest supporters of Australian music and musicians. Across all of our platforms and at all times of day, we’re broadcasting a mix of Australian music touching on many different musical eras and genres. Today we play the highest proportion of Australian music of

Since its inception, the ABC has been Australia’s unique platform for national and personal discussions of faith, religion and ethics. Our specialist programs and presenters are attuned to the changing religious life of Australians, reflecting what’s happening in the community and sharing the ideas of leading thinkers both in Australia and internationally. Each year we

Do you trust the media? Do you believe the news you read in the papers, watch on TV, listen to on radio or (more likely, these days) flick through on your mobile phone? Or do you think the media is full of fake news, controlled by big vested interests who are either spinning their version

I read in the news the other day that the ABC was about to launch “a replica version of Buzzfeed” to produce the kind of content that does well on commercial sites. I was outraged. What’s happened to editorial standards at the ABC? I thought. Why are we dumbing down our content to produce tabloid-style

Most people have heard of ESPN. It’s a world leader in sports and sports news broadcasting, with a global reach and unprecedented influence on standards of sports coverage and sports reporting. A few days ago, it announced a significant change to its organisation. It’s a change that, for many people, will go unremarked and even

The question of what makes something newsworthy has always been one of the most fascinating questions in journalism. The internet is full of academic research pointing to the five elements that define newsworthiness. Or the seven elements. Or sometimes ten. To qualify as news, a story has to have prominence, timeliness, oddity, consequence, human interest,

From time to time, the ABC stands accused of being either biased in our attacks on the Government or kowtowing to that same Government. As a public broadcaster that belongs to the Australian people, it is appropriate that we are regularly called to account for the work we do. Our aim is to listen carefully

If you type the terms ‘Australia Day” and “ABC” into Google, you’ll get almost 800,000 hits. Most of those relate to the national broadcaster’s extensive coverage of Australia Day over the years, and it would take you until Australia Day 2019 to read through them all. But a small proportion of those search results will

The ABC has been in the news a bit lately, not least because there is a push underway to make sure our journalism is fair and balanced. In fact, there is even a proposed law to that effect before our Federal Parliament. So what could possibly be wrong with such a simple and admirable idea?

“This is beautiful and a part of our tradition and it’s nothing to be afraid of.” ‘The Bible says it’s wrong and that’s all there is to it.’ “We don’t want to see more of our kids, our sons, our daughters, our brothers, our sisters, our nieces, our nephews, our granddaughters and our grandsons killing

The ABC has grown remarkably since it launched on 1 July 1932. This is a snapshot of our achievements, programs and personalities and celebrates the ABC's contribution to Australian life for more than 80 years.